This is one of the blogs that was written in draft form about two months ago, but never got round to publishing due to the exhaustion I was suffering at the time. Sorry P&G In the early 1990s I was told by a Christian friend to boycott Procter and Gamble products as the company gave …
Tag: Jesus
Rules — and when to break them
Break the rules? It has been said that rules were made to be broken. But what about Gods rules, can you break them? Religion is all about rules, rules about when to pray, how to pray, what you can eat and when you can eat it, who you can have sex with and when. It …
Ice cream and God
Parenting 'Dad, can I have an ice cream?' 'Not now, wait til you have had lunch.' A conversation familiar to anyone who has been a parent, saying no to your children, letting them down gently. Of course, in the above example a good parent wold have to come up with ice cream after lunch. At …
Refugees – part 2
...as you did it to one of the least of these... An encounter with Jesus went like this: Luke 10:25-37 ESVUK And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do …
Who judges who?
Here comes the judge Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your …
Bad news, the tomb is empty
They thought death had happened to Jesus, but Jesus has happened to death.
United Airlines and the Kingdom of God.
This last week a man was forcefully ejected from a flight because the seat was required by staff of a partner airline to United, who turned up at the gate after the flight had boarded. Using a phrase straight out of an Orwellian dystopian novel United's cheif executive Oscar Munoz used the phrase designated volunteers to …
let the water and the blood…
Let the water and the blood... Words from Rock of ages, written by the wonderfully named Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady. The song takes it's imagery from a gorge in Southern England, where Toplady sheltered from a storm, from the rock that was struck in the desert and from which water flowed during the Israelites' Exodus from …
…and round his piercèd feet
...and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of paradise extend... The words are from the hymn Crown him with many crowns by Matthew Bridges. Then there's this from Psalm 110:1 The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The footstool is where the king puts …
Hands that flung stars into space
Hands that flung stars into space... ...To cruel nails surrendered Words from Graham Kendrick's song The Servant King. Jesus who John's Gospel tells us "Created everything there is, nothing exists he did not make," (Living Bible) When Mel Gibson made the film The Passion of the Christ, the hand you see nailing Jesus to the …
Making an ass of myself 